Questions tagged [data]
Questions relating to data as evidence for claims made.
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What are the practical applications of a medical test that is better at predicting the absence of a disease than its presence? [closed]
Full disclosure, I'm a data science student, not a medical student. I just built a logistic regression model that is much better at predicting the absence of diabetes than it is the presence of ...
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Where can I find an up-to-date checklist for HIPAA compliance (extra points for newbie friendly ones)?
I'm not happy with the HIPAA checklists I've found online, I'm looking for something clearer and more comprehensive for beginners.
I've downloaded probably 7 or 8 free HIPAA checklists from HIPAA ...
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Doctorate in Medical Informatics [closed]
I am a scientific employee at a medical faculty. I administer and develop data capturing tools for medical studies and I want to get my doctorate. I want to build a data sharing platform, where ...
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Detecting a medical emergency based on the symptoms the patient presents
Are there standard rules or references for deciding whether a patient has a medical emergency, based on the symptoms the patient report? Are those standard rules international?
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How does the rare cancer mucinous carcinoma respond to radiotherapy?
Mucinous carcinoma is a rare type of cancer. It starts in the main cells of mucus, called mucin. Although this type of cancer can develop anywhere, it’s most common in your breast.
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Example Public Data in FHIR Format
Can you please link to real/large public dataset in FHIR format?
For example, if I want to download real sequence data I can find it at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE44931 and ...
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Is it possible to meassure anxiety/stress via data collected from smart watches for a whole region? [closed]
A lot of people wear smart watches and other fitness trackers these days. All of which measure at least the wearers pulse, usually a lot more data – even automatically recognizing type of exercise. ...
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Did the NIH study find Moderna - Moderna gave more antibodies than Moderna-Pfizer?
An NIH study studied the efficacy of different combinations of Covid-19 vaccines in terms of the level of antibodies produced. Dr. Rob Swanda tweeted out a chart summarizing the results:
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What data supports the safety of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for women of childbearing age?
I am looking for the actual data (ie, numbers) supporting the widespread consensus regarding the safety of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines with regards to fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth, as stated ...
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how do you estimate the mortality rate of the corona virus? [duplicate]
Disclaimer: I initially posted this question on math.stackexchange.com, but a user there suggested I should post it here instead.
I've seen mortality rates for the coronavirus reported for different ...
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Why Covid-19 might end until September-October in Mexico?
This link was published ~8 hours ago https://www.razon.com.mx/mexico/epidemia-septiembre-pico-agosto/ (spanish) mention this
The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, ...
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COVID-19 data sets with patient-level demographic information (e.g. age)
I'm searching for data sets about Covid-19 patients, where the column "age" occurs for each patient. All the sets I find are summarized, like the one from the John Hopkins University.
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Machine learning for medical image scanning
I'm searching for a topic of interest in the domain of machine learning and computer vision. More specifically, researching can computer vision be applied to classify medical image scans and/or ...
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What factors besides age and genetics influence the prevalence of Alzheimer's?
What factors have been identified to account for the projected increase in Alzheimer's reported by the Alzheimer's Association?
In particular they note:
An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ...
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What are the expected variances of blood pressure readings on home monitors?
For a long time I've noticed that if I take my blood pressure a second time, the readings vary especially for the systolic reading. If I don't like the reading, I just take it again (recording both).
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